It may take place in a man’s world, but this is a women’s picture, in the vein of the overwrought family epics of the 1950s.

In general, director Edward Zwick does a commendable job of keeping things apace, while... John Toll's scrumptiously pristine cinematography and James Horner's piercingly full score.

At first, the picture plays like East of Eden with a bonus brother; it gets sillier as it goes.

...an old-school epic that does, for the most part, remain perfectly watchable for the duration of its (overlong) running time...